The second week of our trip to the lower mainland was fun filled with island living, good food and living with chickens. I can’t possible describe how good it feels to spend time with these friends! We did a lot of walking this part of our trip. While somewhat inconvenient because it made visiting with more [...][Continue Reading...]

Another wonderful visit with friends on Gabriola Island a while back. As the time gets closer to our move, the harder it is for me to imagine not seeing good friends as often as I’d like. Lily insisted that this snake wanted to stay on her warm body. I’m not sure she was wrong… Wasps [...][Continue Reading...]

We’ve been in Gabriola Island the last few days helping out with our friend’s move to their property. Their house is still being built but they’re going to be living in our trailer for the summer until it’s finished. Heading over on the ferry and watching Nanaimo get further away: We’ve still had time in [...][Continue Reading...]

Our weekend at Gabriola was a bit temperamental in the weather department but fun nonetheless. Oscar caught and ate more field mice: The kids sheltered themselves from the sometimes rain, sometimes snow in a makeshift teepee. They had a perfect view of the work site from here. At one point I saw Lily down the hill at [...][Continue Reading...]

Don’t see it? No, not this. Yeah, this. I hardly think it’s fair that they only offer restrooms to men and lads and they even have separate restrooms at that! Women might need to go to the bathroom too, even though it is a short ride to and from Gabriola Island…. In all seriousness, we [...][Continue Reading...]

The outhouse isn’t finished and yet it’s already been christened by all three kids! The roof was completed and the seat worked on. Saving and recycling your poop is “gross”. Not many people are willing to consider composting their poop and frankly, many probably don’t even want to acknowledge they have poop at all. What, [...][Continue Reading...]